HAMPSHIRE completed a miserable weekend of sport for the Welsh capital by delivering a crushing blow to Glamorgan’s Friends Provident Trophy campaign at Cardiff yesterday.

Following Portsmouth’s FA Cup final triumph over Cardiff City on Saturday, the weakened south coast county emulated the borough’s football club in beating a Welsh sporting side by defeating the Dragons by four wickets in the south west group match.

It leaves Glamorgan rooted to the foot of the table with only one win in five matches, meaning they will have to win their final three matches and hope other results go their way.

After being put into bat, the Welsh county were guilty of not scoring enough runs against a second-string Hampshire bowling attack that was missing pace duo Bond and Tremlett, and the rested James Tomlinson.

This was despite Mike Powell ending his long wait for his first one-day century for Glamorgan in his 12th summer with the Welsh county.

The 31-year-old, who also passed 10,000 first-class runs last Friday, surpassed the 91 he scored against Leicestershire in Cardiff in 2003, to notch up three figures for the first time in 174 List A innings.

His unbeaten 114 off 140 balls was also the first century in a one-day game against a first-class county by a Glamorgan batsman since Robert Croft’s innings at Colwyn Bay in 2004.

But, despite this personal milestone, the team’s total of 229 for five was at least 20 runs short of the par score of 250, especially following the excellent platform provided by the second-wicket partnership of 145 in 32.4 overs between Powell and Matthew Wood (64).

Glamorgan were 164 for one in the 37th over when Wood was caught by David Griffiths, nephew of former Llanelli and Wales scrum-half Jonathan, off the bowling of Sean Ervine.

This heralded the start of a middle-order collapse from to 181 for five in six overs, with Tom Maynard, Jamie Dalrymple and Ben Wright only managing seven runs between them as Glamorgan limped to the end of their innings.

The Glamorgan pace attack rarely threatened from the outset without the injured Australian Jason Gillespie, who was ruled out because of a hamstring strain and was replaced by Huw Waters.

Waters, David Harrison and Alex Wharf posed few problems for the opening Hampshire pair of Michael Carberry and Michael Lumb with some superb shots and poor bowling allowing them to put on 96 for the opening wicket and set the tone for the run chase.

Carberry, who scored a century for the English Lions against New Zealand at the Rose Bowl recently, was especially dismissive of the Glamorgan pace bowling trio with the left-hander dominating the stand, his half-century coming up in 46 balls.

It took the introduction of Ryan Watkins, who was making his one-day debut this summer in place of slow left-armer Dean Cosker, to break up the stand when he bowled Lumb for 35.

Off-spinner Dalrymple accounted for Ervine in the next over when he bowled the left-hander around his legs, before re-enacting the exact dismissal to dismiss the dangerous Carberry for 65.

With Croft not considered for the one-day game, Hemp was also without the option of Cosker yesterday and was forced to employ the part-time off-spin of Wood to back up Dalrymple.

The defeat capped a miserable weekend for the Welsh county as the weather affected the chance of a second successive championship victory in the four-day match against Derbyshire in Cardiff, while Matthew Maynard also picked up a worrying injury concern over Gillespie.

The Australian only bowled 13 overs in the two innings of the rain-affected drawn game against Derbyshire and remains a worrying doubt for the championship clash against Northants which starts in Swansea on Wednesday.

Glamorgan will travel to St Helen’s this week frustrated after Derbyshire escaped with a draw on the final day.

The Welsh county had been in a strong position throughout, but the 109 overs of the match lost to rain and bad light ultimately put paid to the home side’s hopes of a second four-day win of the season.

Derbyshire, who took nine points, were indebted to Dan Birch for a rearguard effort which saw him score 43 and help his side to 184 for seven – a lead of 89 – when the players shook hands with seven overs remaining.

Play did not start on the final morning until 11.30 while the ground staff mopped up the remnants of overnight rain, with eight overs lost.

That further hampered Glamorgan’s hopes and in the end the Welsh county had to settle for 11 points to consolidate their mid-table position in division two.